Twitter App ‘Polly’ Adds Ubuntu 12.10 Support

My favourite Twitter app for Ubuntu has been updated to support Ubuntu 12.10.

Polly is a multi-account supporting and multi-column toting desktop app for Twitter. It sports a healthy set of features whilst also having a relatively light footprint on system resources.

Although a stable release of Polly has yet to be made, although the ‘development’ build is, in my opinion, robust enough for daily use.

Polly Features

As we’ve written extensively about Polly in the past I’ll summarise its feature set rather than explore it in-depth.

Realtime updating

Multiple account support

Auto-completion of nicknames

Spellchecking

Configurable URL shortening

Multi-column options

Conversation ‘context’

Media uploading

Easy Tweet favoriting/reply/retweeting

Collapsable input box

As of writing (October 24th) you there is no Online Account integration, nor is there much in the way of Unity support; Polly doesn’t appear in the Ubuntu Messaging Menu or add an unread count to its icon. It does, however, use Ubuntu’s notification system to alert you to new mentions and messages.

Install Polly in Ubuntu 12.10

To add Polly in Ubuntu 12.10 (as well as Ubuntu 12.04, which is still supported) you need to add the official Polly Unstable PPA to your Software Sources.